Wisdom 18:2-4
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
2 and were thankful that your holy ones,[a] though previously wronged, were doing them no injury;
and they begged their pardon for having been at variance with them.[b]
3 Therefore you provided a flaming pillar of fire
as a guide for your people’s[c] unknown journey,
and a harmless sun for their glorious wandering.
4 For their enemies[d] deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness,
those who had kept your children imprisoned,
through whom the imperishable light of the law was to be given to the world.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 18:2 Meaning of Gk uncertain
- Wisdom 18:2 Meaning of Gk uncertain
- Wisdom 18:3 Gk their
- Wisdom 18:4 Gk those persons
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